Recently I've had trouble installing packages. The problem can be seen in the following output:
ponderosa:~ alama$ fink update-all Information about 6707 packages read in 2 seconds. W: Encountered status field in a non-version description The following 13 packages will be installed or updated: aspell aspell-compat aspell-shlibs gengetopt gnome-print gnome-print-dev gnome-print-shlibs gnucash2-shlibs gtkhtml3.8.15-dev gtkhtml3.8.15-shlibs intltool mizar xemacs The following 3 additional packages will be installed: dbus-dev gettext-dev gnome-libs-dev Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Setting runtime build-lock... dpkg-deb -b /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-buildlock-aspell-0.60.4-1006 /sw/src/fink.build dpkg-deb: building package `fink-buildlock-aspell-0.60.4-1006' in `/sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-aspell-0.60.4-1006_2007.01.10-15.07.39_darwin-powerpc.deb'. Installing build-lock package... /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-aspell-0.60.4-1006_2007.01.10-15.07.39_darwin-powerpc.deb dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 9691 package `fink-buildlock-gnucash2-2.0.4-3': missing version ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 2 Can't set build lock for aspell (0.60.4-1006) If any of the above dpkg error messages mention conflicting packages or missing dependencies -- for example, telling you that the package fink-buildlock-aspell-0.60.4-1006 conflicts with something else -- fink has probably gotten confused by trying to build many packages at once. Try building just this current package aspell (i.e, "fink build aspell"). When that has completed successfully, you could retry whatever you did that led to the present error. Regardless of the cause of the lock failure, don't worry: you have not wasted compiling time! Packages that had been completely built before this error occurred will not have to be recompiled. See http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:buildlocks for more information. /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-aspell-0.60.4-1006 >/dev/null dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 9691 package `fink-buildlock-gnucash2-2.0.4-3': missing version ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 2 Failed: buildlock failure I get this dpkg parse error when I do pretty much anything with fink. The contents of /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status near line 9691 is this: 9682:Package: fink-buildlock-gnucash2-2.0.4-1 9683:Status: purge ok not-installed 9684:Section: unknown 9685:Architecture: darwin-powerpc 9686: 9687:Package: fink-buildlock-gnucash2-2.0.4-3 9688:Status: purge ok installed 9689:Section: unknown 9690:Architecture: darwin-powerpc 9691: 9692:Package: ant-base 9693:Status: install ok installed 9694:Section: devel 9695:Installed-Size: 35612 9696:Maintainer: Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 9697:Architecture: darwin-powerpc 9698:Source: ant-base 9699:Version: 1.6.5-2 9700:Replaces: ant (<< 1.6.5-1) 9701:Depends: system-java (>= 1.4-1), darwin (>= 8-1) What might be going on? Thanks, Jesse -- Jesse Alama ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) *10: Too many basic sentences in an inference ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
